Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness. Those, which depend on ourselves, are the only pleasures a wise man will count on: for nothing is ours which another may deprive us of. Hence the inestimable value of intellectual pleasures. Ever in our power, always leading us to something new, never cloying, we ride, serene and sublime, above the concerns of this mortal world, contemplating truth and nature, matter and motion, the laws which bind up their existence, and that eternal being who made and bound them up by these laws. Let this be our employ. Leave the bustle and tumult of society to those who have not talents to occupy themselves without them.
Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, and exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!
Understand the context.
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects something it cannot be.
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